Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b32a9587342e58dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-29 04:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: dab43b44d5cfb7d48050c35c61808054 SHA-1: 909b8ff57455e22fc66f216b87938c81a6da203a SHA-256: b32a9587342e58dcc9d287cfe43e7256de71a244b69cb3bfba48efe945ee2047
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the PDF is used to distribute links to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+android+app+without+coding+free PDF link annotation
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvavovagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sowlindia.com/userfiles/file/zorunapuroxisunivogadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/65340543699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26149824734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgrima.com/files/file/99066872450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dyaa.club/uploads/file/setawujuzebevewanixusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/95412495790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/42884414479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/72474431369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j431cbqukgoqk7148v9ogpef40/soroporabuzamojojofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cef1cfc560a3c3f2721bf8faeeeb44b/nidofuwuwiripolinuraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3m18.com/images/editor/files/kexekenagexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allineers.morefriendship.com/upload/files/vopafozeboso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6d5ab2c20---fibutafalibetejawozitit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraswatishikshamandir.com/singhania/downloads/file/55663364054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/181654068852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/xabepifepalik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrodomesticaruano.com/images/ckfinder/files/danofojudixitinodevuweku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/8822762297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maysoi.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/98369434924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/42277177523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202109162156424752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ad2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC540 14604 bytes
SHA-256: a3c38049c1c763fb1eb7f851b04273601bb1483042ac6bdd9bc2ddd397904aa5
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EB 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 37380273e7f5106e63c754e1d954d2db41a067ea85311d8c72dea4b18ee81cd1